Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

The skeleton was reburied at the oldest part of Mountain Home Cemetery during a Monday, June 30 ceremony, put on by the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American ...

Far from the well-known mysteries of the Pharaohs, this quiet valley holds some of the oldest evidence of human life, with skeletal remains and stone tools that predate the Great Pyramid of Giza by ...

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, the oldest known human fingerprint in existence.

Scientists Found a 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint That May Be the Oldest Ever Left by a Human The fingerprint’s Neanderthal owner was just painting a self-portrait.

Originally thought to be part of a human’s upper arm and leg—specifically a humerus and femoral head—they were considered among the oldest known human fossils in Japan. The findings, published in ...

The Ur 501 jawbone is considered the oldest known human fossil from the Homo genus, with an estimated age of between 2.5 and 2.3 million years.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.